Martin Lurther King (MLK) was arrest and acquitted, by an all-white jury, for Tax evasion. He was arrested again at a sit-in at Atlanta’s Department Store. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy helped get him free on bond.

1961 - The first “Freedom Riders” leave Washington on a Greyhound bus to integrate interstate buses. Throughout May different groups of Freedom Riders are arrested, attacked, and assaulted until MLK joins and Robert Kennedy send marshal to protect them. Later in the year it continues in Albany and MLK is arrested again.

1962 -James Meredith is barred and then ordered by the Supreme Court to be allowed to enroll as the first black student at the University of Mississippi. Riots ensue and 2 are killed.